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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Disaster Prep for AZ – Think Dust, Flu and Fires

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Monday, September 15, 2008   

Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans are being encouraged to "think like Ike." Although hurricanes are not on the likely disaster list for the state, there are other events that could mean evacuations or being homebound for safety reasons. September is "National Preparedness Month," and Susan Higgins with the Arizona Public Health Association gives examples of what types of emergencies people should be thinking about.

"It's more likely to be a severe dust storm, wildfire, flu pandemic, or Hantavirus."

Higgins says the other plan to have in place focuses on communicating with family members, or others at work if that's where the emergency happens. She says people should put together phone lists, and designate a contact out of the area to be the point person.

"A strategy, also, about where you will meet, and how you will get communication going between you if the cell phones are all out."

Higgins says have enough food and water on hand for three to five days, and make sure the food doesn't need to be cooked or refrigerated. Other recommendations include food and carriers for pets, flashlights and extra batteries, a weather radio, a whistle, dust masks, pliers, paper and pens, and small non-electronic games for entertainment.

Hantaviruses are sometimes carried by infected small rodents in the Southwestern U.S. and can cause severe respiratory infections in humans.


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